Studies show that plants have feelings and moods? They can feel?!
Studies show that plants have feelings and moods? They can feel?
It has been proven that a plant can feel pain, but will vegetarians continue killing life?
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they do have to eat something. so i guess they put plants feelings at the bottom of the list of other things' feelings.
They have to eat something!!!! No meat, no vegetables, what's left beside tofu???
"It has been proven that a plant can feel pain, but will vegetarians continue killing life?"
-No, it hasen't. Plants lack the requisite anotomy to feel pain, or any evolutionary reason.
Lets assume for a moment that plants do in fact feel pain, I would continue to eat them and not animals. Why? Because by eating plant directly you end up kill the least amount of plants possible. Animal agriculture is horribly inefficient, and the animals that eat the plants convert only a minuscule amount of that plant it just ate to muscle for our consumption. To keep plant suffering to a minimum I would choose to eat low on the food chain.
If you want to keep telling us how "proven" something is please site a source.
This is a repeat of a question you've already asked.
It has NOT been proven. You have referenced junk science data. Eat a pork chop and listen to reason.
Given that plants have no central nervous system and nothing with which to "feel" pain, I'd say your arguement (and that of whomever is conducting these alleged studies) is spurious. And "moods" also implies a level of intelligence of which plants aren't capable. They have no brains to feel emotions and no personalities with which to display mood shifts.
You also fail to cite your sources, which leads me to believe that they don't originate from any reliable scientific group. Sorry -- the National Enquirer doesn't count.
Your body needs plant foods to survive and thrive while meat is bad for you and the animals. Also please let us know if there are really any credible studies out there that back up your claim. I have yet to see one that compares animal pain vs. plant pain and declares them equally the same. I think it is noble for you to worry about the pain you are causing with your fork. Perhaps you could do a whole lot of good by skipping animal products and incorporating lots of fruit in your diet. Fruit naturally falls from most fruit bearing plants and the plant itself is left unharmed.
10X as plants are killed to raise meat-food than veg-food. Some killing is necessary. Meat-diets require MUCH more plant-death than veg-diets. If you are trying to reduce plant-suffering, eating them personally is the best way to do it.
There is currently no reason to believe that plants experience pain, devoid as they are of central nervous systems, nerve endings, and brains. It is theorized that the main reason animals have the ability to experience pain is as a form of self-protection. If you touch something that hurts and could possibly injure you, you will learn from the pain it produces to leave it alone in the future. Since plants cannot locomote and do not have the need to learn to avoid certain things, this ability would be superfluous and evolutionarily illogical. Furthermore, the fact that plants may or may not be able to suffer doesn't justify causing pain and distress to animals like dogs, cows, rats, or chickens who we know are capable of suffering a great deal.
It would be hypocritical IF the same criteria or morally relevant attributes that are used to justify animal rights also applied to plants. The criteria cited by the AR movement are "pain and suffering" and being "subjects-of-a-life". An assessment of how plants measure up to these criteria leads to the following conclusions.
First, our best science to date shows that plants lack any semblance of a central nervous system or any other system design for such complex capacities as that of conscious suffering from felt pain.
Second, plants simply have no evolutionary need to feel pain. Animals being mobile would benefit from the ability to sense pain; plants would not. Nature does not gratuitously create such complex capacities as that of feeling pain unless there is some benefit for the organism's survival.....got ya didn't I????
I don't belive that plants have feelings. I would like to see what website you got your so called "proven data". Of they cant eat plants then THERE IS NOTHING LEFT! What do you want us to do starve for goodness sake????
What do you suggest? Unless we can live on rocks and sand, we HAVE to kill life. Killing plant life is beter than killing animal life. Even if we assume that a carrot feels the same agony as a cow (sounds ridiculous but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt), it's still better to kill the carrot. You know why? That cow eats ten thousand carrots to furnish a few people with a day's meal. Do the math. Meat-eaters kill way more plants than a vegetarian.